luckytohaveajob
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Buzzing horns are useless human factors
How many people get out of their car with a horn buzzing? As they get out and walk away with the lights left on, some of them are asking a similar question you posed, What is that buzzing sound? Five hours later you realize what that buzzing sound was as you have a dead battery. How effective is the old gens landing gear horn? Not very! How conditioned are we to cut it out before we even consider its significants thereby conditioning ourselves to ignore horns.
So there you are 25 miles from the airport at 5000 feet, your told to slow to 190. The flaps come out to five. The plane is slowed. Then you are told to descend to 4000 feet.
HORN! HORN!
We all try to get to the cutout button as fast as possible because it is so annoying even though the horn is telling us something very important, PUT DOWN THE GEAR. Problem is, we are 25 miles from the airport!
Buzzing horns are useless warnings when applied to human factors engineering. And down right dangerous when the same horn has multiple needs depending on particular conditions.
How many people get out of their car with a horn buzzing? As they get out and walk away with the lights left on, some of them are asking a similar question you posed, What is that buzzing sound? Five hours later you realize what that buzzing sound was as you have a dead battery. How effective is the old gens landing gear horn? Not very! How conditioned are we to cut it out before we even consider its significants thereby conditioning ourselves to ignore horns.
So there you are 25 miles from the airport at 5000 feet, your told to slow to 190. The flaps come out to five. The plane is slowed. Then you are told to descend to 4000 feet.
HORN! HORN!
We all try to get to the cutout button as fast as possible because it is so annoying even though the horn is telling us something very important, PUT DOWN THE GEAR. Problem is, we are 25 miles from the airport!
Buzzing horns are useless warnings when applied to human factors engineering. And down right dangerous when the same horn has multiple needs depending on particular conditions.
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